Enhances enterprise global name search and analysis

IBM® InfoSphere® Global Name Management helps manage, search, analyze, and compare multicultural name data sets by leveraging culture specific name data and linguistic rules.

Features

• **Recognizes and interprets names: **Recognizes written, hand-keyed, and oral interpretations of name data.
• **Supports transliteration: **Handles transliterations from Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul (Korean), and Kana (Japanese) which includes both Hiragana and Katakana.
• **Provides trusted actionable insights: **Identifies and classifies the cultural heritage, country of association, gender, and parsing of a name, allowing for actionable business decisions.
• **Uses powerful ranking analytics: **Scores and ranks results by leveraging linguistics-based search capabilities that consider similarity of pronunciation to identify matches as well as cultural variations.
• **Simplifies name search and analysis: **Performs name matching against lists and other data sources and provides likely variations.
• **Identify correct names: **Conducts knowledge-based name matching that considers every name, which greatly reduces false negatives and false positives.